J. A. Van Heuvel on the Indian Race of Hayfti. 177 
The Arrowack language resembles in its structure the Haytian. 
Herrera says the Haytian was easy to be pronounced and learned, 
and Charlevoix says that we may judge of its softness by some 
words which have passed into our language. Such is the char- 
acter of the Arrowack, which abounds in vowels and liquids, 
and is remarkably soft and melifluous. Bancroft, who resided 
sometime in British Guiana, says, in his history of this province, 
that it is distinct and harmonious, and not unlike the Italian in 
softness and multiplicity of vowels. 
Fe allowing Arrowack words, taken from my vocabulary, 
w this: 
sho 
Arrowack. Arrowack. 
Sun, Hadalee, Earth, Woonabo. 
Year, Weewa, Water, Woonee. 
Tree, Ada. Island, Careeree. 
Hill, Hoorooroo. Lightning, Belbellairo. 
4. It is not only very probable, but there are some facts fur- 
oa r 
nishing decided evidence, that the Arrowacks of Guiana passed 
to the northern islands in the West Indies, Hayti, Cuba, &c. 
Sir Walter Raleigh, in the narrative of his expedition to the 
Tinoco in 1595, states that they had spread along the coast as 
fur as this river. “The nations,” he says, ‘that dwell on the 
South of the Orinoco are Arrowacks;” and, in another place, ob- 
Serves that “he came to a town of the Arrowacks north of the 
~Tinoco.””” Humboldt mentions them among the nations now 
in the Spanish province of New Andalusia, which is between 
this river and the northern coast. Being spread so far to the 
Rorth, they might easily pass to the island of Trinidad, which 
'és hear the Orinoco. But that they made this transit is not 
Merely conjectural. Sir Robert Duddeley, in the account of his 
Yyoyage to 'l'rinidad in 1595, found in Hackluyt’s Collection, v 
'V, gives a list of words of the language spoken in this island, 
hearly all of which are similar to the Arrowack. But, for brevy- 
ty’s sake, we give only a few in the following table: 
Trinidad. Arrowack. 
Arrow, i Simara. 
Maize, Maureesee, Mareesee. 
Bread, Callit, Calee. 
Stone, Sebath, Seeba. 
re, Hecket, Hekeehee. 
Du Tertre, in his Histor of the West India Islands, says that 
the Caribee inhabitants of the smaller islands, in 1640, united in 
& general war against the Arrowacks in Trinidad; which not 
», History of St. Dominga * Cayley’s Life of Raleigh, Appendix No. IX. 
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